Books by Elisheva Carlebach

The recipient of the Salo Baron Dissertation Prize in Jewish Studies, this text focuses on the campaigns against heresy of Rabbi Moses Hagiz, one of the most prominent and influential Jewish leaders of 17th-century Europe. Each episode illuminates a struggle for control of the Jewish community.

Palaces of Time resurrects the seemingly banal calendar as a means to understand early modern Jewish life. Elisheva Carlebach has unearthed a trove of beautifully illustrated calendars, to show how Jewish men and women both adapted to the Christian world and also forged their own meanings through time.